In the past decade many Christians have embraced the "What Would Jesus Do?" campaign, which encourages them to base their decisions and actions on this question. Allen Verhey's Remembering Jesus takes a serious look at what Jesus really said and did and applies it to contemporary Christian ethics.

Verhey asserts that following Jesus requires remembering him, and in order to remember Jesus, Christians must read and understand Scripture, where the memory of Jesus is found. By remembering Jesus, this book contributes to the effort of Christians to discern the shape and style of life "worthy of the gospel." More specifically, this book displays the implications of Christian integrity for sexual, medical, economic, and political ethics, seeking to understand what Jesus would really have to say about these issues today.

About the Author

Allen Verhey is the Evert J. and Hattie E. Blekkink Professor of Religion and chair of the Department of Religion at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments and Dedication

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Part 1

Choices, Churches, and ScriptureA Continuing Tradition of Discourse and Discernment

Introduction: Ethics "by Way of Reminder"

3

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"Able to Instruct One Another": The Early Church as a Community of Moral Discourse

14

2.

"Able to Instruct One Another" Still: The Continuing Church as a Moral Discourse

34

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"Useful...for Training in Righteousness": Scripture, Churches, and the Moral Life

49

Part 2

Remembering Jesus in the Strange World of SicknessA Continuing Tradition of Care for the Suffering

4.

"Disciples of the Saving Christ" in Sickness and in Healing

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5.

Remembering Jesus in the Strange World of Sickness

92

6.

Remembering the Early Church Remembering Jesus in the Strange World of Sickness

117

7.

The Strange World of Sickness Today: Toward a Watchful Medicine – A Continuing Tradition of Care for the Suffering

133

Part 3

Remembering Jesus in GileadA Continuing Tradition of Liberation and Chastity

8.

The Handmaid's Tale of Gilead

157

9.

Remembering Jesus: The Handmaid's Son in Gilead

171

10.

Remembering the Early Church Remembering Jesus in Gilead: A Continuing Tradition of Liberation

185

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Remembering the Early Church Remembering Jesus in Gilead: A Continuing Tradition of Good Sex

212

Part 4

Remembering Jesus in the World of Adam SmithA Continuing Tradition of Justice and Generosity

12.

A Rich Fool in the World of Adam Smith

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13.

Jesus and His Economic Worlds

253

14.

Remembering the Early Church Remembering Jesus

276

15.

The Continuing Church and a Continuing Tradition of Justice and Generosity

305

Part 5

Remembering Jesus in the Strange World of PoliticsRevisiting Theocracy – A Continuing Tradition of Justice

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